The Sun. — London, England, 1838-10-18 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. If anything further were required to prove the superior activity and intellig4nce of the m erc h an t s o f the Indian presidenFtes in d !:;vising me ans f or t h e i mprovemen t o f the commumeah ong with England, it would be found 11'.. a tte - port, which we have already referred to, but now publish en tire, of Colonel Barr's proceedings in Egypt, under the su perintendence of the " Steam Committee" of Bombay. We do not recollect ever to have seen a document, pro fessedly occupied as this is with simple details of busi ness, which is fitted to enlighten the world so much on a most important subject, and to figure in so distinguished a manner among the great incidents in this century con nected with the march of human improvement. We con foss that we have perused it with feelings of heartfelt gratifi cation, and anticipate from it the speedy approach of the day when our Indian possessions, our much-neglected In dian possessions, the richest colonial diadem that ever crowned the brow of any sovereign State, shall be brought almost into contact with us, the distance re duced to an easy regular journey of about six weeks, as near to us therefore, practically, as the West Indies and Canada were till the steam communications with New York were opened, and all the increased interest and improve ment to both obtained which must spring from so vital a change in the mode of communication. Who can think of these " stations" in the desert, the vans and omnibuses for ladies and children, the provision to be made for an ex cursion to Thebes, like a branch railway to Stow-gar dens or to Woburn Abbey, and carry his mind back to the long wanderings of God's chosen people over the .ame route, left for 4,000 years down to the present time barbarous and impracticable, and now to be opened for the first time to the most weak and timid of tra vellers, without the deepest emotions. We confess that we, having only the common interest of British subjects in the matter, have run over it with delight, and have no doubt that a still stronger feeling will be produced by it among all those who are connected directly or indirectly with India. This will be accepted as part fulfilment of our - promise to pursue the inquiry respecting the existing impe diments to the communication with India, but we have not yet done with it. We may refer to the information col lected yesterday in the City, on the arrival of an overland despatch from India, to show that affairs in that quarter are becoming critical, to say the least of it, and if the early knowledge of what is passing there is material, as it must be, for the purposes of timely interference and prevention of mischief, there is another powerful impulse given to the motives already urging on the mercantile interest of the country to the improvement of the communication with India.-- Times. Let a Tory master paint you the portrait of Toryism, and a diviner party never governed a nation. No people but the English ever merited such rulers. There is not a liberty or advantage we enjoy for which we are not in debted to some Tory benefactor ; or an evil we suffer from which a Tory Statesman would not deliver us in a week of power. Were the Tories restored to office the empire would thrive only too rapidly ; Reform would advance with a fatal speed ; we should be too prosperous, too quiet, too glorious by many degrees ; and then we should have such an Eden in Ireland, that people would flock thither from all quarters, leaving England and Scotland as de sert as Zahara. Indeed, why do the Tories covet place ? Notoriously with no other object but to make us all flourishing and happy, and bring back the golden days of merry Old England. Mythologists assign to every nation a guardian angel ; and the guardian angel of England is clearly the spirit of Toryism ; a spirit " delicate" as Ariel, but incomparably more benevolent and disinterested. Give us back, give us back, we say, the halcyon days of Toryism and true liberty, Toryism and genuine repose, Toryism and eter nal sunshine ! " Oh, who would not welcome those mo ments returning ?" Who would not hail the return of the golden era when, at home and abroad, extravagance was unknown, when grievance was redressed as soon as felt, when a popular murmur was never heard, when enlighten ment and education careered in seven-leagued boots, when Cabinets sat only to devise improvements, confer boons, bestow franchises, mitigate the severity of oppressive laws, and a myriad more offices of philanthropy and patriotism ? Public virtue, thy name is Toryism ! Call a man a Tory, and you are guilty of tautology if you add that his mind is a store-house of wisdom, and his heart a magazine of worth. Count the virtues of Tory days, and you can count the Libyan sands, or the leaves of Vallambrosa, or aught else that passes arithmetic. Dryden's Eleanora had not a vaster crowd of excellencies : " A multitude of virtues pass'd along, Each pressing foremost in the mighty throng, Ambitious to be seen, and then make room For greater multitudes that were to come." We have been an abject, miserable, outcast nation ever since the demon of Whiggery, or Liberalism, prevailed over our good genius, as " the foul witch Sycorax" had once the mastery of the delicate Ariel, the type of Toryism, as Cali ban is the apt image of Reform. One thin g , however, is strange. The Tories themselves dislike the appellation Tory : the epithet offends them ; the name by which they did so many wondrous deeds, acquired such a hoard of re putation, and conferred such:enormous benefits upon Eng land, they would fain have forgotten or laid aside. To call them Tories, is as offensive as to call them thieves. Why is this? Whence comes it ? Surely, Tory Lords and gentlemen, you never did any thing to make that name dis reputable I All your actions have associated the honour and advantage of England with it—have they not ? By that name you never jobbed ; by that name never practised any corruption ; never attacked liberty ; never endan gered the public peace ; never protected abuse ; never resisted the redress of grievances ; never violated the rights of conscience ; never, of all things, oppressed Ire land; never loaded the people with taxes; never spent those taxes in wasteful wars and gorgeous sinecures ; never by the name of Tories did aught, surely, incon. sistent with the strictest honour, or at variance with the British interests in any quarter of the globe 1 Ab, Tory Lords and Gentlemen, it is because you have done the reverse of all these things, that you would fain be no more called Tories. You know that every public act of your party has made the Tory name a by-word and a brand of infamy. By that name you governed England to her burning shame and incalculable detriment ; by that name you fleeced the people beyond all example in old or modern story ; by that name carried the art of political corruption to unknown heights of perfection and success; by that name waged incessant war with liberty and conscience '•; framed and pursued a system of government in Ireland, the only Parallel of which is to be found in Virgil's " Tartarus," or Milton's " Pandemonium ;" by that name shielded every nuisance in the kingdom, cherished every blot upon our laws and institutions, opposed every proposition of re form, no matter how moderate, and every effort of philanthropy, no matter how flagrant the cruelty that called for humane interposition. Well may you blush to be called Tories. The word is written upon the shackles of the press and the fetters of the slave. The word Tory is in itself a compendious history of all the crimes and follies of English Gevernmeut since the Revo lution ; it contains the annals of the long and disastrous re sistance offered to the measure of Catholic emancipation ; it tells the tale of the profligate stand made for Gatton and Old Sarum : well, indeed, may a party blush to be called Tories. Conservatives is now the word; it is monstrous te call them Tories any longer. They think to improve their odour with the country by changing Tory to Conser vative, as if the name was a point of consequence ; as if changing the sign could change also the thing signified ; as if it sweetened a dunghill to call it Sabana, or would mend Dr. Phillpotts to name him after St. John or St. Peter. We have heard of an Irish peasant who christened his pig by the charming name of Georgiana ; but the Thee was as u nsavory an d grunted as discordantly as ever. was did not become a boudoir, nor did Georgiana put off her piggish mind, or cease to wallow in the mire. The " page of Cadogan-place" may be called Alphonse, but h e rema i ns " Plain Bill " notwithstanding- "If ever there w as an Alphonse who carried plain Bill in his face and figure, that page was the boy !"--Morning Chronicle. There are few duties which ought to press themselves more urgently upon the attention of Magistrates than that es of binding out p oor c hild ren as apprentices to trades. That such a mode of di s p os i ng o f children, if previousl y . well in quired into and co ns id ere d , is both politic andhumane, cannot be for a mom ent d ou b ted ; but neither the bindine , parish, nor the parents, in all cases, are to be implicitly relied upon, both the one and the others' object too often being to get rid upon any terms of a burden which they are unwilling, and, in the case of the latter, often unable, to maintain. These circumstance s s h ould only make the Magistrate the more cautious, and his inquiries the stringent ; as he must feel, or ought t o feel, that more e or i e s placed in loco paren tis towards the children, whose fat e , either of prosperity o_r e destruction, res t s on his decision. W are led to these remark s b y a Case which occurred a few days since at one of the police-offices, when t h e Magistrates were induced (mistake n ly as we think) to bind one or more p oor children t o th e t ra de of a Spitalfields weaver, though opposed by th e ove rseers o f f that already-overburdened to them, as common district ; and thou g h it was sho wn notoriety must, we should think, have pretvioeusin a state lyinfor ofmed them, that th a t t ra d e h as b ee n for al ong im decay, and that there was every chance and gs of misery of children so b ound being only d es ti ne d t o a dd to t h e ma pau perism with which the district has so long abounded. The Magistrates in this case, indeed, appear to have taken a sin gularly narrow view of the matter, as they appear to have postponed the case merely to ascertain whether the pro posed apprentice was likely to have a bed to lie on ;--the very suggestion of a doubt about which, should have been sufficient to have convinced them that the proposed binding could not be a proper one. The one sole questio;:3l: l4o A Magiatrltta's to ask ikeluevuii, Aim** thr• binding is likely to be beneficial to the child ? " • - _..... tins question, in such cues as that we be easily answered by ot . alluding to, would _ ening this rule—that where there are known trs to no Voluntary bindings, compulsory ones can T r...er be advisable.—Morniog Herald. A year or twoago the Church was filled with alarm at the assaults made upon her by the Dissenters, when the latter were more active than they have bean of late in their as sertion of the voluntary principle. Her friends dreamed not, at that time, that there was the slightest cause for apprehension from any other quarter ; least of all did they imagine that any danger was likely to arise from within herself. The event has shown that in the latter respect they were indulging in an imaginary security. The divi sions and disputes which have recently taken place among her own Clergy, and the bitter animosity 'with which they are carrying on their controversies together, threaten to effect the ruin of the hierachy in a much shorter period than the Dissenters could have hoped to achieve it. A house divided against itself cannot stand ; the Church will constitute no exception to the rule, unless the divisions which are now raging within her walls be spoedily healed. The intolerable despotism of some of her &gni taries is contributing essentially to the same end. A remarkable instance of this p.elatieal tyranny, which must lend a helping hand to the overthrow of the Church, has occurred within the last few days. The circumstances of the case may be stated in a few words. The Bishop of Exeter exacts an obedience from his Clergy which he has no right to demand. One of these Clergy denies his authority, and raises the standard of rebellion against his high behests. The refractory Clergyman is taken to task by the Ecclesiastical Dignitary, whose pride has bees wounded because his authority has been con temned. The poor Clergyman, frightened at the prospect of something worse than his Bishop's censure—with eecle siastical persecution, if not legal proceedings—is fain to succumb. Still the indigeant and mortified Prelate does not relent ;he has mot sufficient generosity for that. On the contrary, it would seem that the more the Clergyman humbles and abases himself, the more harsh and vindictive does his spiritual superior become. He " rebukes" his poor penitent in a speech of near an hour's duration ; and assails him in a most unmerciful manner. The latter cringes to and quails before his powerful tormentor ; he utters not a word. But does Dr. Philpotts suppose that because his vic- tim is silent he is submissive in his heart? As soon might it have been supposed that the pear West Indian negro, who, be fore the recent Emancipation 'Act was passed, bore the lashes he was doomed to receive without offering resis tance to his flagellator, MIS reconciled to the system which sanctioned such atrocities. If ever Mr. Head had any affection far a Church which authorises such merciless and humiliating treatment, the last vestige of that affection must have vanished when the haughty' Prelate imposed on himself the task of " rebuking" him for questioning his authority, and disobeing Lis mandate. And how pained and mortified must the other clergy in the diocese of this imperious Prelate have been, while they listened to his dagger-speaking apostrophes to Mr. Head. Must they not have all felt themselves to be equally the slaves of their spiritual superior? Must it not be gall and wormwood to them to think that they dare not utter a syllable in the way of disapproving of what their Bishop enjoins them to do, far less refuse to do it, even where he has not the laws of the Church in his favour ? 'What a humiliating posi tion for gentlemen and men of education to be placed in! Such men may remain in a Church in which such things can be practised ; but it is impossible they can have any affection far her, or make any strenuous efforts in her be half.—Morning Adverliser. 1 London Journal, which is in the interest of the pre sent Administration, and is manifestly used on sundry occa sions by various departments of the Government, writes as follows : " The people of England must suffer the landholders of the country to destroy their commerce abroad, by raising up cheap manufactures abroad and starving them at home, for the preponderance of the landed interest means that rents must be kept up at the expense of the best interests of the country. When the landlords have destroyed our trade, and deprived our manufacturers of the means of purchasing, we may have low prices, but not till then, for the landlords would hazard any extremity rather than yield to the just claims of the people." We trust that the landholders of the country will not fail to bear in mind that, fur the dessemination of such falsehoods as the above—so likely to raise a vulgar and vio lent prejudice against the landed interest—the present Go vernment ought to be held in a very considerable degree ac countable. It is true that the Government leaders in Parlia ment do not hold this language, for they durst not. In Parlia ment such language, instead of bringing votes to their side, would do exactly the reverse. But landowners and occupiers ought not to be satisfied with mere Parliamentary silence, when Journals which are notoriously under the influence of the Government lose no opportunity of doing injury to the landed interest. If this Government were not false and treacherous to the landed interest, no such paragraph as that above quoted would appear in the Ministerial Jour nals. We, therefore, venture to suggest to such gentle men as Mr. Byng, Mr. Handley, and Mr. Cayley, and many more who hold views which they do, upon the subject of protection to the interests of British agriculture, that they ought either to make such a remonstrance as would cause a discontinuance of attacks upon these interests in the Go vernment Journals, or to withdraw their support from a Government which actually gives encouragement to such attacks. As to the assertion that foreign commerce is de stroyed by the laws in force for the protection of the inte rests of our agriculture —or that it is merely for the sake of the landlords' rents that these laws are maintained—or that very low prices for corn would be, upon the whole, ser viceable to a country circumstanced as Great Britain is, we have shown over and over again that all such assertions are mere fallacies, unsupported by any sound argument, and unsanctioned by experience. Short-sighted greedi ness, and popular shallowness and error, are the sources of all the clamours against th e C orn -l aws . Thi s the Minis ters will not deny, while they encourage their Journalists (for the sake of a spurious and temporary popularity) to maintain that these Corn-laws are weapons forged by the landowners wherewith to wound and oppress the people. No landowner of sense or spirit ought to support a Govern ment which practises such double-dealing.—Morning Post. APOSTOLICAL SUCCESSION.—In a speech at the late meeting of the London Missionary Society in Leeds, the Rev. Mr. Carruthers, of Liverpool, formerly Missionary in the Crimea, related an amusing instance of the importance attached to apostolical succession among the Kalmuk Tartars. When at Astracan, Mr. Carruthers visited the place of wor ship of the Kalmuks, and saw their high-priest arrayed in his splendid yellow pontifical robes. Observing a machine re sembling a hollow grindstone in the church, he asked the high priest its use, when the latter told him that it was o f great use, for it was a praying mach ine—that the people wrote their hrayers on pieces of paper, which he put all together into the ollow wheel, and, turning round the handle, thus prayed for the Kalmuks. Another thing which provoked the Mi ss i onary ' s curiosity was, that be saw the high-priest pour some di rty liquid out of a large bottle into a small bottle, an d so l emn l y drink off the liquid ; and on inqu iring why this was done, he was told that that bottle contained the ashes of the high priest's predecessor, and that it was the custom to burn the body of a deceased high-priest, and then to mingle the ashes with water, a portion of which was drunk by his successor every morning until the whole of the former pontiff had been received really and bodily into the sy s t em o f t h e ex i st i ng pon tiff This pract ice is worthy of the devout consideration of the Oxford divines, as it affords the truest realization of apos tolical succession that we have ever heard of. May it not also admit of a question whether the Kalmuk praying-machine is not just as efficacious as priestly absolution ? The " Animals' Friend Society" has been unfor tunate last week in havinr , been obliged to bring the chief of the cases before Mr. Senett, at Hatton-garden, and Mr. Lentbam, at Dover, these Magistrates having always been adverse to the Society, and the cases were accordingly dis missed. Edward Reevcs was charged by two witnesses at Dover with having whipped a horse till the whip was covered with blood : this was one of the cases dismissed. And Charles Green and John Atkins were charged also by two witnesses, at Hatton-garden, with having very cruelly whipped and wheeled a horse, which cases were likewise dismissed by Mr. Benett, because the whip was not produced, and the master did not appear I The Society, however, caused James Barton to be imprisoned by Mr. Witham, at Hatton-garden, for cruelty to a sheep. MACHINE FOR THE CURE OF APOPLEXY, SUG GESTED BY MR. KIWIS GOSIPERTZ.—Provide a plank with a perpendicular axle at one end, and place the axle in a socket, so that the plank can turn round horizontally, like a turnpike gate ; then let the patient lie on the plank, with his head near the axle, and let this plank be caused to revolve swiftly, so that the blood in the patient's head may, by means of centrifu gal force, be forced towards his extremities. —Mechanics' Journal. SOUTH AMERICA.---By the Courier merchant ship letters and Papers have been received from Valparaiso to the 22d July. The expedition against Peru had sailed from thence on the 10th. The number of troops on board is re ported in private letters to have been 8,000, but according to the The Pa Piepers 6,000. On the 20 t h t h ey were off Coquimbo. Papers were filled with Orders of the Day and Procla mations to the Peruvians from the President of Chili and Manuel Baines, the Ge neral in command of the expedition. The troops were deseni f ed ent t h o u b f in excellent spirits, and the p p e e a o r p s le n o e e t the leittt°l::afturlalordinary enthusiasm the thef f un ds could It f ap pears equip in so short a time an expedi ti on fcui:niiccho,uwithe o u refer ence to the population and resourcs o reckoned formidable. It is made matter of boa l, st Tiayttesotr l y g a b nes of Government that they have levied no forced lor y i.n or extra ordinary evictions of any kind to meet the vast expenditure necessary, and it is exultingly appealed to in proof that no part of the effects, arms, or ammunition required, remained unpaid for. No inconsiderable proportion of the force was composed of volunteers, vnd even among them were many citizens oValparaiso. From Bahia of the 23d o f August o interest has been received. The exc h ange was o,„ of f at arni THE POPULAR CHARACTER. (From the Spectator.) The more the people become intrusted with power, the more it becomes an object of interest to estimate and de termine their capacity for exercising that power with dis cretion. This cannot be done effectually without a sound perception of their character, disposition, and habits, and considerable philosophical acuteness in applying that know ledge to prospective circumstances. Statistics will not avail us here ; the question is one rather moral than poli tical. To every country is attributed a certain national character. This national or average character is chiefly to be sought in the humbler classes of society, and becomes more strongly marked the lower we descend in the social scale. The aristocratic and the rich, who spend a great part of their lives in travel, form a sort of nation of their own indeed, but do not differ so materially amongst them selves : their mind and manners, to begin with, are cast in a more uniform mould ; intercommunication assimilates them ; and the reciprocities of peace tend continually to remove the discrepancies of nationality. But the poor con tinue for the most part under the influence of the same causes which originally combined to give them a distinctive character. Between an English and a French nobleman the moral interval is not nearly so large as between an English and a French labourer. The difference may be understood from the example of two neighbouring trees, whereof the upper boughs mingle and unite, but the trunks cannot meet. We would not, however, insist on fulfilling the comparison to the extent of denying that in the infinite social progression, promised by the diffusion of knowledge and humanity, the lower classes of different countries may not ultimately effect the same approaches which have been made by those above them: only this is to be borne is mind—that they are the last to move in such a direction. Now, therefore, since national character—in the sense of the moral peculiarities which give distinction and indi viduality to the people, or rather populace, of a country— is one of those social landmarks which the tide of innoya tion has hitherto spared or but slightly touched ; and as it exercises an extensive, though silent, influence in political affairs—one difficult to temper, and impossible to extinguish —it follows that the knowledge arid study of that national character is an indispensable branch of the science of politics itself, and that no political education can be, or ought to be considered, complete without it. Without a deep insight into human nature, there can be no great phi losopher ; without a shrewd sense of the national character, there can be no able politician. There can be no wise legis lator without both. And here we see that line, so often overlooked, which separates the mere politician from the political philosopher. The former reduces politics to an affair of arithmetic ; King, Lords, and Commons with him are only another sort of pounds, shillings, and pence ; man and wife are given quantities—to be divided if need be ; and if his figures run high, it is a chance but all England starves in the quotient. The latter, because he comprises all that the former boasts of useful or practical, omits nothing essential from his calculations, nor is to be outwitted by him in numbers ; but his arithmetic is in subservience to his wis dom ; the speculative is not swallowed up by the practical, nor the lasting by the ephemeral ; humanity tempers dis cipline ; every smaller view is a section of one larger and more comprehensive ; feeling is not discouraged because it is humane, nor induration held a part of duty ; with an arm to strike there is a heart to feel ; benevolence goes hand in hand with justice ; and in all that is done there is an under-current of catholic good-will, which sanctifies and lends new weight to the prosecution of the severest truths. This comparison will describe, in some measure, the de fects in the political education and views of such a legisla tor as the Duke of Wellington ; to whom, while all the qualities of a military commander may be conceded with out hesitation, a few only of those belonging to a great statesman can with justice be ascribed ; these few being, in fact, nearly identical with the military attributes. Legislators of this school are apt to look on politics as a game, in which man, woman, and child are mere pieces, to be moved or removed in any manner that can promote the designs of the players. They mistake diplomacy for wis. dom, and doctrine for good government. Looking on the people as an indistinguishable human mass of one general character—and even of that general character having fre quently 14 0 just perception—they deal with them in a manner proportionably indiscriminating. They are too uninterested in them—they are too interested in themselves—to make a study of the disposition and feelings of the people, with a view to accommodating and shaping the measures of go vernment to the pattern before them—as all good political workmen would do. Their study is not men, in fact, but books. In them they place their trust—.and are deceived. A column of figures is not a body of men ; and the results of measures are not to be foretold either by arithmetic or by dialectics, but by experience of human nature, super added to book knowledge, and especially by the experience and study of the nature of those whose political wants it is endeavoured to supply. The importance, therefore, of some correct medium of representation for the character and feelings of the people —not the particular animus of any given concourse of people—not people in Palace-yard, or Kersal Moor—we mean the people of Great Britain, the lower or industrious classes, as honourably cistinguished from the upper or idle classes, of the country,—the importance, we say, of such a medium of representation, is as obvious as the importance of the knowledge to be sought from it. The whole basis of opposition to popular demands—. avowed by the Tories, and entertained, with ill-concealed fears, by the Whigs—is the moral inference which is drawn to the prejudice of the people ; the belief in the encroach ing, grasping nature of their disposition. It is thought they may not stop short at the point where justice may be ren dered to them, but may rise in their demands and become insolent and unreasonable in proportion to concession. The French Revolution has been the example perpetually threatened as that which the people of England are pre pared to realize here, if only suffered to follow the natural bent of their inclinations. But can it not b• proved, on the contrary, from moral data, that this opinion springs from no just estimation of the English character, but rather from base fear—from the cowardice of conscious injury and ill-government—th e misgivings of the oppressor ? We think it may. Tories and Whigs are here both in the same moral. Bullies are cowards, and so are sneaks. THE YARN TRADE.—Ws understand that the en gagement to abstain from lighting up mills, to which we alluded on Wednesday last, has been signed by all the spin ners of middle numbers of mule yarn for export in Manches ter and the immediate neighbourhood, with the e xception of one or two, w h o , f rom t h e pecu li ar c i rcumstances in which they were placed, could not be expected to join in the en gagement. We understand the short time is to commence on Mond a y next ; an d t h e st i pu l at i on i s , t h at none of the par ties to the engagement shall recommence working full time without gi v i ng a f ortn i g h t ' s not i ce to t h e i r ass ociates. We believe there is very little doubt that the example will be very generally followed by the principal country spinners who reel their yarn.—Manchester Guardian. LAWs AGAINST IMMORALITY._HOW much have we heard, within the last ten years, of " the march of in tellect" and the wonderful increase of knowledge among the people I W e s h oul d re j o i ce to see a proport i onate improve ment in th e nat i ona l mora l s .— S evera l attem pts have been made to pass a Bill in the House of Commons for the better observance of the Sabbath, which has been considered, and we think justly, as an improper interference with the rational enjoyments of the humbler classes in their relaxation from the labours of the week, and tending to engender hypocrisy. But with respect to moral conduct, the case is widely different. This concerns the national character, and it is essentially the duty of Legislators to regulate and protect the morals of the peo ple, for the general good of society in a civilized nation. There is a crime which is nearly allied to murder, inasmuch as it leads, in every instance, to mental and moral wretchedness, to do mestic destitution, and, in frequent cases, even to death ; and yet for the punishment of such a crime we have no existing law in this enlightened country. How many victims of seduc tion appear at our police offices every week 1 How frequent are the paragraphs in the London newspapers headed " Se. duction and Suicide 1" How many families have had their domestic union and happiness destroyed by the artful and dia bolical conduct of immoral men, alike regardless of parental feeling and of the horrible destruction of female chastity I The Legislature, we earnestly hope, will not much longer puffer this most unfeeling, unmanly, and degrading offence against morality to remain unpunisbable. We trust some Member, of high moral feeling, will bring a subject so important to the character of the country before Parliament, in the next Ses sion. Let us have at least some reason to hope the " march of intellect" is not a mere empty boast, and that the march of morality is making some progress.— Warwick Advertiser. It is now long since any new documents relating to the time of the Commonwealth have been given to the public ; and we aro glad to understand that Mr. Colburn is going to fill up this deficiency by the publication of an interesting se. ries of Private Correspondence between Secretary Thurlow, and the other distinguished men of the time, throwing much light on the principal events, and on the secret policy of the reign of Cromwell. The Newcastle Journal states that on Monday, at Hexham, the bed of Mr. Hedley, butcher, was sold in the market place, by auction, for Church-rates. A croA d of people assembled on the occasion, and were addressed by Mr. Gray, on the impolicy of the Church of England employing such means fur the support of the Establishment. - - The workmen employed at Clarence House, St. James's, the residence of her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta, commenced on Tuesday to renovate the mouldings of the exterior of the edifice, which had been injured by the weather. The Commissioners of 'Woods and Forests have also ordered the edifice to be painted throughout. The Princess will reside at her delightful seat at Frogmore, be queathed to her by her illustrious mother Queen Charlotte, until the first week in next month, when she will proceed to Biighton. Ttie m in the precincts of lion, formerly occupied by General Sir Herbert Taylor, has been *griped her. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Oct. 17. GENERAL PALMER'S BANKRUPTCY. This was the day appointed for the general auditing of the accounts of the estate of this bankrupt, the late M. P. for Bath, the proceedings in which have been reported in our Journal. A question which had arisen in regard to some freehold pro perty of the bankrupt was reent:oned by Mr. Hauseman, but the Court thought it had no jurisdiction in the case. Mr. Clarke then addressed his HONOUR. He said be at tended at the request of several of the creditors residcn, in Brussels, France, and England, fur the purpose of calling at tention to this bankruptcy, which was unlike those that too frequently came before the Court. The bankrupt had brought into trading a large sum of money, though he bad been re duced to the necessity of appearing in the Court. He further alleged that the bankrupt had been deprived of a large num ber of acceptances, for which he had received no considera tion, but had been compelled to take them up, and could point out one case in the accounts where 15,0001. of such accept ances had been procured. In this manner a great part of the property had been sacrificed ; and so confident were the creditors he represented that .the bankrupt had been more " sinned against than sinning," that they determined to have a thorough investigation of all such accounts, and would sup ply the funds necessary to carry on the business. All they required was his Honour's assistance, and should be be pleased to grant it, they felt assured that upon the estate being purged of all unjust claims a handsome divid,nd would remain for the bone fide creditors. The claims he alluded to had crept in, the bankrupt not having kept a regular account of his transactions. Mr. Commissioner EVANS said he would give every assist ance, as would also the official assignee. Meetings should be given for the proceedings when application was made. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. JUVENILE DELINQUENCY.—Ann Lynch, aged 14, and Jane Davis, aged 13, were indicted for stealing a sheet, the pro perty of Jane Bradshaw. The prosccutrix kept a lodging-house in Whitechapel, and the prisoners went there to sleep on the night of the 13th of October, and when they left on the following morning they took the sheet in question away with them. The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty. The CHAIRMAN expressed his regret that there were no means of suppressing the low lodging-houses that were in Whitechapel, and which were the nightly resort of young thieves and prostitutes. He then sentenced the prisoners to six months' imprisonment and hard labour in the House of Correction. Daniel Sullivan pleaded guilty to an indictment charging him with assaulting John George Stevens, a policeman of the F division, in the execution of his duty. It appeared that the prisoner not only knocked the prose cutor down, but afterwards kicked him, and inflicted such injuries on his person as to render him unfit to attend to his duty for a month. The CHAIRMAN said the Court were determined in all cases to protect the police in the execution of their duty. He then sentenced the defendant to four months' imprisonment and hard labour in the House of Correction. Upwards of one hundred prisoners were discharged by proclamation, after which the Court adjourned. SURREY SESSIONS. KINGSTON, OCT. William Bryant was tried and con. victed of stealing three live tame rabbits. In the course of the trial it appeared that the prisoner was a man of notori.usly bad character, and was at the head of a gang who were the terror of Sutton and the neighbourhood of Baustead. When he was taken into custody on the present charge, and lodged in the cage at Mitcham, his associates surrounded it, and ac tually tore it down to the ground, for the purpose of releasing the prisoner. He was, however, subsequently taken into cus tody. Evidence was also adduced of his having been several times in custody on charges of felony, and that he had also been summarily convicted on various occasions, and imprisoned in the different gaols of the county.—The prisoner was sen tenced to be transported for seven years. Thomas Duke, Benjamin Chapman, and John Chapman, the two latter father and son, were indicted for stealing 14 gallons of beer, the property of Messrs. Chandlers, the brewers, of Epsom. The trial of this case occupied the Court upwards of four hours, the brief facts of which were these :—Duke acted in the capacity of foreman to the prosecutors, and being sus . petted of purloining property a watch was kept, and the two other prisoners were discovered in the act of taking a barrel of beer from the premises, which was given to them by the prisoner Duke. Evidence was adduced of the prisoners being concerned fur some time past in purloining the property of the prosecutors. A verdict of Guilty having been returned against the pri• soners, Duke was sentenced to fourteen years' transportation, and the other two prisoners to seven years' transportation each. LICENSES OF PLACES OF PIBLIC AMURIMENT. Mr. Jemmet moved for a renewal of the music and dancing lice4nriei. s l efor Vauxhall Gardens, on behalf of Mr. Gye and Mr. llu After a brief consultation amongst the Bench, the applica tion was granted. The license for the Royal Circus, or Surrey Theatre, was renewed to Mr. Davidge. Also the license for Astley's Amphitheatre, to Hannah W. Astley, John Cobbould, Andrew Ducrow, and William West. The next application was on behalf of Mr. Richard Haward, proprietor of the St. Helena Tea-gardens, Rotherhithe, for a renewal of a music license only, which was granted. Mr. Philip Phillips applied fora music license to the Duke's Head, in Bower-gardens, Stangate-street. After some desultory conversation the license was granted. Mr. Braster, of the Jamaica Tavern, Bermondsey, applied for a music license. The Court granted it. Mr. Chambers applied for a music and dancing license, in the name of Mr. Levi, for the Victoria Theatre. Mr. Jemmett said that Mr. Levi's interest would expire in August, and he wished the names of Mr. Young and Mr. Smith to be also introduced into the license. Mr. Chambers consented, and the license was then renewed. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. Q UEEN-SQ UARE. William Riley, the driver of a go-cart, was yesterday placed at the bar, charged with being one of the parties concerned in the late daring burglary at Basingstoke, and was fully com mitted for trial. THE Nsw HACKNIY CA/Milan ACT. —Fred. Greevea, the driver of th e omn ib us 4 51 , was c h arge d b y B yers, the i nformer, with loitering on his journey. Mr. GRIGORY fined the defendant 20s. MARLBORO UGH- S TREE T. A respectable looking man, who gave the name of James Riddle, was brought before Mr. CONANT and Mr. COURTNEY, charged with having attempted to cut his throat at an early hour that morning, in the Quadrant. Inspector Jervis said the defendant came to the station house and asked to be allowed to pass the night there. He was told he could not be allowed to remain unless there was some charge against him, and he went away. Soon after this the policeman on duty in Regent-street, brought the defen dant to the station-house, and reported that he had just pre. vented him from cutting his throat in the open street. The policeman had seen tile defendant Fitting on the base of one of the pillars, and hearing him threaten aloud to cut his throat he did not think it necessary to pay any particular attention because he believed the defendant was in liquor. In a short time his attention was attracted towards the defendant, and, on going up to him, he saw that the defendant was bleeding from the throat. On examining the defendant's neck at the station-house, four cuts were found, apparently inflicted with a blunt knife, and on making further search a pen-knife, very blunt, and bearing the defendant's name, was found covered with blood. As the wounds were not deep, the Inspector said he did not think it necessary to send the defendant to the hospital. He, however, took the precaution to have him watched during the time he was in the station-house, as the defendant appeared excited, and continued to threaten to make further attempts on his life. He repeated the same threats whilst on his way to the office. Mr. CONANT—WiIy did you attempt to cut your throat ? Defendant—Because I've been cheated and robbed out of my property. My miseries are too great to be borne any longer. I was distracted at my situation, and not finding a place where I could lay my head. I have not been in bed for four nights, and all I bad yesterday was a couple of penny worths of gin gerbread, and a glass of ale. I have not tasted food this morning. To convince you that my troubles have sot pro ceeded from drink, but villany, here is a paper which will prove that I have been robbed of 650/., which I advanced to a man to take a public-house. The Magistrates determined to hold him to bail for a short period, and in the mean time to write to Enfield acquainting his friends with his melancholy situation. HATTON-GARDEN. STARVATION.—Yesterday Ann Hewitt, an elderly woman, in great distress, was brought before Mr. Witham in the custody of a police constable, charged with being destitute. She had been lying on the spot where she was found ever since two o'clock on Friday last, without haying tasted a mor sel of food, and she had determined on remaining there until she died. Mr. Wertism—ls it possible that she could have been so long without food ? Sergeant Pagan, 19 N, said that when she was brought to the station-house she was evidently star ; via nd ng, Mr. WirnAss ordered that she should be taken care of on questioning her she made the same statement as she did at the station-house, and he directed the constable to take her to Islington workhouse, in order that she might be passed to Leeds. The constable returned with her, and stated that he had taken her to tho workhouse. The overseer was not there, but ho saw a person who said that he had received orders not to receive her, and all he could do was to give her some bread lust (indignantly)—Then I will make an order lT to receive her; it is a case of destitution, and cheese.r .them \l, upon of urgent necessity. Where is theifPotohre-loavwertsleeetr? He and on for ;fir. Monett, the clerk, who askeiddtihienocto.nstable whetheres be M could me that the overseer could he saw r the ia li c overseer e? had C o n n o s t doubtabl e _ld T do he w m ha a t n w in a f s or r n ig ie h d t. and order eer urgent necessity," mid Mr.hat day. B it yrir• sn.7gested that th e Over , sneoet.Cinlbel.n' ess ‘ t v e : :: uc i t i It seas a ease of 'tlhmailtidthbee scanto rsfeoerr. they were bound to attend to her, should be eveseauxicated with to ea • use h is attenciaxes at the office, and that the prisoner should be taken care of until some thing could he done for her. Ann Wane waA finally examined, eharvd by Mr Ilqwlay, proprietor of the Southampton Arms Tavern, Hampstead road, with robbery, The prisoner denied the robbery, but she was fully com mitted for trial on both charges, MA RY LEB ONE. Yesterday, George Walter, a cab and coach proprietor, re siding in Roberts'-mews, Hampstead-road, appeared before Mr. HOSKINS and Lord MONTFORD, by virtue of a summons obtained against him for the cffeoce of having unlawfully de tained a license granted to his driver Thomas Jackson, who had deposited the same with his employer, agreeably to the provisions of the Act. Mr. HosKiNs said that he should cause the license to be for warded to the Registrar, and gave directions for the parties to be in attendance on a future day. WORSHIP-STREET. kiary Anne Williams, a pauper in Bethnal-green work house, was brought up in tha custody of a poli'e constable of the Ii division, and placed at the bar before Mr. GROVE, charged with encleavcairing to raise a mutiny among the paupers in the workhouse. She was sent to the House of Correction for twenty-one days, with hard labour. THAMES-OFFICE, Yesterday, John Shefley, a j-)urneyinan baker in the em ployment of Mr. Dowdil', of Little Surrey-street, Bl.ack friais-road, wt , !s brought before Mr. BALLANTINE, on a ch,rge of stealing Si. 10s. in silver, and 30s. worth of copper moneys, the property of his employ r. The prisoner was committed to Nowgate fur trial. THE FA RlVERs.—Artizans and manufacturers are not aware of the groat expense attending the cultivation of corn, or they would nut be so clamorous against the small and reasonable protection which the agriculrurists require, to secure to them the very moderate profits they enjoy. Ani malized carbon is now brought from Copenhagen to Wey mouth, and transported by land carriage to the vicinity of Blandford, as the poor lands there cannot produce core with. out the expensive manures of bone-dust, or animalized carbon. Surely, then. the farmer should have secured to him a fair interest for the money expended in a concern which is liable to accident from bad seasons and various other causes, and this can only be done, in the present state of this country, with reference to the taxes of the Continent, with the aid of the Corn-laws. The idea of using animalized carbon (which is nothing more than night-sail mixed with ashes and dried) was taken from China, where a duty is paid on it, and it is not allowed to be sold without the seal of the Celestial Empire.— Wilts Herald. [Why does the Herald lend itself to the dif fusion of a pernicious fallacy ? Instead of attempting to hood wink and delude the farmers, is not the truth told, namely, that the poor lands should be put out of cultivation ? The community does not want their expensive produce, and the farmer should seek a more profitable employment for his ca pital.] EXPORTATION OF HoßsES.—The following horses have recently been purchased by General Van de Poll, for the Dutch Government, and were shipped on Saturday last to Rotterdam, viz. :—Carnaby, Puffendorf, and Allerston, by Brutandorf ; the Drummer, by The Colonel ; Castaway and Sylvan, by Cain; Revenge, by Fungus; Abbas Mirza, by Camel ; Marquis, by ruley ; The Early Bird, by Bed lamite ; Mic Mac, by Tramp ; Appleton Lad, by Humphrey Clinker; St. Kevin, by St. Nicholas; Bonehill, two-years old, by Zinganee, out of Miss Lydia; and Hope, two-years-old, by Belshazzar, out of Sister to Swinton.—Hall Advertiser. An instance of true brothery affection, which we are sorry to say is rather rare in these times, occurred on Tuesday last, at Shrewsbury fair. A small farmer had brought some sheep to dispose of, and after remaining in the fair for some time, lie was applied to by several " buyers," and offered sundry sums of money for the sheep, which were refused by the farmer, because, as he observed, the " offers" were below the market price. After remaining for a considerable time without another chance of sale from those who know how to bid where they think money is wanting, a gentleman, elegantly attired stepped up, and asked the price of the sheep, and was answered 275. ahead. The gentleman pressed for a few mo ments a reduction in the price, though evidently labouring under strange emotions, when the poor farmer gave utterance to his feelings in the following language :—" I have a large family at home, and have struggled for many years to keep my head above water, but (he continued with a look of despond ency) I cannot hold out much longer." " Well," said the stranger, " I will give you 40s. a head for them" (drawing front his pocket a roll of bills), " and will also provide for your family." The farmer looked confounded for a time, till the stringer revealed himself as his brother, who had made a for tune, and resided at Hall, in affluence, in the neighbour hood. It appeared that as the gentlemen was walking through the fair, he observed the farmer, and recognised him as his brother, though he had left his home for 20 years, and was sup posed to have died many years ago.—Kidderminster _Messenger. At nine o'clock on Sunday evening, Mr. Courtney, a gentleman residing at No. 10, Gdlingham.street, Pimlico, discovered a fine female child, about six months old, at his door. The infant was enclosed in a wicker basket, and dressed in rather a superior style; but no clue has as yet been traced with regard to its parentage. A police constable took the bat•y to the station-house, from whence it was conveyed to the workhouse of St. George's parish, in Mount-street, Hanover square. On 'Tuesday last, a lady, 105 years of age, residing in the city of New York, who has never used spectacles, and still retains in a remarkable degree all her mental and bodily faculties, took it into her head to visit a female friend Newark. She got into the stage, and alone, without atten dant, came to this city. A gentleman learning that such a personage was in town, called on her and requested her to accompany him to the house of a friend, which she accord ingly did. Here she was introduced to a gentleman 107 years of age ; and these two venerable survivors of the last century there held a most interesting conversation of by-gone days. Having always lived in the city she had a perfect re collection of the time when the river covered the ground where St. John's Church now stands. In the evening the lady, whose name we understand is Gouge, returned to the city.— New York Paper. . . P OT ATOE MARKET.--Th e season f or shipping Potatoes to the port of London is now commenced; about nine cargoes have already arrived from the Channel Islands. one from Devon, and one from Yorkshire. There is now in the market of these about 82 tons of Jersey Whites, and 80 tons of York ; and advices of various shipments having been received, a liberal supply may be calculated upon in the course of the week, if not prevented by adverse and contrary winds. The inland crops of Potatoes in the neighbourhood of Lon don have been very plentiful during the summer; but the re ports as to the latter crops are by no means so favourable, and the supplies to the metropolitan markets from that source have been, and are now, gradually diminishing; in conse quence of which (and about 1,000 tons being shipped in ves sels for New York, America), prices have improved. The accounts received as to the quality and crops of Potatoes may be thus generally stated, a fair average crop in most places, and the quality generally good, except in the more northern districts, where it is reported there is a great deficiency. In addition to the above a few barges have arrived from Kent and Essex. Present prices are as follow :—York Reds, 80s. per ten ; Jersey Whites, 555. to ditto ; Kent and Essex Whites, 60s. to 655. ditto. There are no other varieties at present in the market.—Commercial Gazette. THE PONTINE MARSHES.—And these, then, are the fearful swamps that looked to us, as we descended last evening from Velletri, so dismal under their grey base, the dark cloud-like headland in the farthest distance louring above the mist like a huge incubus. What a most living and trans lucent emerald is all around I Throughout the entire road are double lines, on either hand, of tall and slender trees that seem to have sprung up, rejoicing in the abundant irriga tion ; on each hand, too, innumerable droves of horses and their colts, mingled with herds of oxen, corpulent in shape, and with broad horns of commensurate expansion, bask in the teeming pastures. Corn waves in the distance beneath the Volscian mountains, that sweep through the marshes in semicircle on the land side; while, towards the sea, forests of amazing foliage grow and perish almost unmarked of hu man eye. A canal, all clearness, glides with swift current by the road-side, along whose green brink, even from whose very wave the living shrubs are springing --shrubs, and long grass, and numberless water-flowers. The whole is a scene of the richest, the profusest vegetation—the most English looking spot, in fact, in Italy. The air, perhaps has some thing clammy and cave-like in its influence, and a sort of ghostly exhalation hangs about the Appennines, as we used to see it at Pisa, but no worse than there that I know of.—. Notes on Naples anti its Environs. On Tuesday a lengthened inquiry was instituted before Mr. Baker, at the Ferry-house, Upper Clapton, relative to the death of Mr. Henry Newbury Overton, aged 18, who was drowned in the River Lea by the upsetting of a pleasure boat. Joseph Daniells deposed that on Sunday evening, about half past five o'clock, he and three other boys were fishing in the river Lea, when they observed the deceased in a boat sailing. He was alone, and passed them to go towards High-hill - bridge. It was blowing a brisk breeze at the time. He re turned in about a quarter of an hour. Witness asked him if he would take them to the Jolly Anglers. The deceased re plied that he would not let any one in for the world. He pro ceeded on, and did not appear to apprehend any danger. At a short distance from the spot where they stood the wind, which was then blowing violently, forced the sail into the water. The deceased, who was astern, attempted to balance the boat, but was unable, and the sail sunk deeper into the water. While the boat was sinking he jumped off. He was about two yards and a half from the shore, but could not reach it, and sank. Witness and his companions ran off to procure a boat, and some persons brought the drags. The deceased's body, however, was not found till the next morning. By the Jury— The deceased appeared as if he was not able to manage a boat. He was quite sober. It had been blowing a gale all day. Mr. J. Harrington, High-kill, Upper Clapton, said that he was owner of the boat. He had twelve other beats. The deceased frequently engaged a boat of him on a Sunday. Last Sunday he hired one, and requested a sail to be put to it. He went on the river about three o'clock. Witness cautioned him when he left not to have the sail fastened, but to hold the rope of it in one hand, and the rope of the rudder in the other ; but when the boat was found the next day both the rudder and sail were fastened. The Jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death. The deceased was articled to an eminent solicitor iu the city. 0 , Friday night the cold was so intense that the. mercury in the tixr,Lorneter .uuk fout degrces ire, z • and on Saturday we bad some heavy sh owers of I point; mo w .—Atastrucy Journt. THE WEATHVIt &c., iN SCOTLAND AND IRELAND The fine harvest weather which we lately enjoyed, seems: now to have left us ; and whiter appears to be setting ice The first intimation of change was on Thurday last, when w!: were visited with the high wind, which has been so general. over the country. On Saturday morning we had a slight shower of snow ; and throughout the day it continued to be very cold. Yesterday (Monday) morning we had a good deal of rain, accompanied with a boisterous and piercing wind, which lasted during the el ay. It is understood, however,, that little if any danger is to ins apprehended from this storm to the crops in the neighbourhood; as the most of them were cut down, and a considerable preiteortion housed, before its, appearance. —Edinburgh Courant. The present. as we have often said, h a ' son, been a singular sea son, and in the course of last week ire has7l one most remark able change of temperature—viz., a fall in th,e thermometer of ten degrees between Friday nigh:. and Satoeclay morning. Hard frost followed, and early in the morning the fields were whiter than we have y e t seen th em. O cc asionally; too, rain fell ; but still, amidst every disadvantage, a good deal of work was was satisfactorily performed. and it is only aro und such places as Penny cuik and Biggar that we hear of grain oncut or partially green. In all districts where draining and o: - e er . improvements are studied, r e api ng an d leading were fin ished last week, end we could enumerate, were it necessa ry, the names of at least a theusand farmers who have already cele brated `.EI irvest finne." Of the p o t a t o e crop in ou r own ' district we cannot spe.k favourably. In general they are ac counted thinrin the ground, and in some parts of Annandale we believe they arc mi*erable. In noticing last week the weight of the wheats and barleys in the Haddington market, we adhered stricly to the„ authorized Agricultural Reports et the district. Rural notices, we have long been aware, are apt to be toned by what the writer sees around him , and possihtr enough we ourselves have been a little misled by witne ssing this year so much fertility. A correspondent writes—" By the way I think yo u are go ing a head considerably as to the state of the harvest . If you informants have wheat that will weigh 60 or 61lbs. t he y are lucky fellows. I don't think there is a bushel grown iii the r=ile of Hoddam, and better land is not in the ceunty, that will come within 51bs. of that mark. I have a couple ef.aerea reys e , lt which, although it was a show all the summer. Yie ld : something little better than bird's meat. The potatoes 110,-, grown must,; but my large ones are all dropsical, and so foli. of water in the heart, that I shall not attempt to store one them. Turnips are better than I expected ; still sm all, / 1091 r ever, and I recommend strongly earthing up with the ploug:o. I intend to cut every one of them—a practice, lam cettain, which will at once pay and afford employment. With: the wheel cutter one boy can with ease supply ten score shcP' which, if left to carve for themselves', merely scoop out, lent, ing the rind untouched, which, in a sca son like the prese t. n , amounts as near as may be to a full third of the to tal bulk' —Dumfries Courier. HURRICANE.—The gale of wind which visited Edinburghoont Thur§day appears to have extended over the whofe east do of Scotland ; it has proved very destructive to property. I t not appear, however, to have caused much loss at sea. , o f For the last two days it has been blowing a heavy galgeo, wind from the south-west, accompanied by occasiona l sho tiaa and the weather is in a most unsettled state.--Dub/in •tu of Monday. . NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, OCT. 18: The We al ''' . s e! cc. up to yesterday having been uncommonly favourab le, siderable quantity of grain has been cut and secured this w,_eh Last night, however, we experienced a very severe frost, Wu l a was succeeded this morning by a heavy fall of snow, and al t, considerable portion of wheat in the late districts is still re.% we experienced a very free demand from our miller s for f t he old and dry new, at an advance of Is. per quarter. fillywbil9t.et int,rmediate qualities met more attention than of lat e, at eea former rates. The condition of our new samples wa s g a - ad rally indifferent, and they sold at all prices between b°s'f,,e.. 70s. Flour is held firmly, but the dealers comply very tantly with the present prices, 525. being demande d for a ging ,lls bolds and 545. far whites. In rye we had rather mere Psare We have numerous inquiries for new Norfolk barley , and 00 have little doubt the fifst arrivals of fine quality will g ° o re readily at 365. In malt riot much doing. Old beans are of inquired after. White peas also. We had a moderate sh°,"of oats from the growers this morning, which consisted chieg..a the new crop •; such samples as were in good condition lo_u_epi, a ready sale at last week's prices, but ill-conditioned Pr reels were very difficult to dispose of, and mast be noted a d' P eo lower. Old oats steady. The duty on wheat is 43., 8 ° rye and barley Is. 6d. per quarter higher. 'ask W a l- On Monday a number of the disciples of .capal ton, who enjoy their piscatory pleasures in the Surre l and the extensive ponds and docks therewith connecteo, famous for the finny tribe, assembled at Mr. Mo rris's, the r o f Nelson, Clarence -street, Rotherhithe, and, after partaliantv. an excellent dinner, spent the evening with great hit I o trl- We have been informed that the gentlemen, by stated en., so . butions, purpose to form a little fund to be devoted to p"!_ oee thropic purposes. There is one melanch ol y circutnat!ce„ connected with this much frequented water. S'ince the pres ent the preb_v vetion of the canal and docks in the early part of er.. century inquests have been held upon upwards of rs 2,, e 0 , l'tho te a sons, who have been taken lifeless out of t hese major part of whom were suicides, in consequence of d iSp. pointed love or pecuniary embarrassment. an As a proof of the modern attachment to relics °'" trifles over more substantial objects, a modern writer Or:, We doubt not that the peruke of Louis XIV' , or '— cocked hat of Marlborough. would fetch in any Lomclon aue or tion room a price beyond Voltaire's history of the one , Arc; d ercon Coxe's life of the other." fifteen SHOOTING.—On Monday, the lst William Baynes' party, a t Blackwell, with Sir Th om as Bar' r.ett's hounds, killed roe deer—the g reatest numb.-0° ? known to have been kill e d i n th a t district in one day e_. Friday fortnight, Fra nc i s G o rdon, Esq.i n stant, Si r g2ldie, in company with a friend, killed, in youngerteeourosef up e ot t he hours, on Lochnagar, and the adjoining grounds, brace property of Abergeldie, twelve brace of ptarmigan, on of grouse, a couple of Alpine hares, a fox , a nd a gamn o - in—a proof both of good shooting and good grou Aberdeen Herald. r tt On Thursday evening, at seven o 'clock, thirty-five to forty yards of the east wall of Messrs• an a and Son's yard, Wellington-street, ten feet in height St the brick and a half in thickness, was blown down by ar r t he wind, from the N.W., and Mr. Blacker, being n'nu e er ,..-- wall at the time, was mutilated in a most horrible man Hull Observer. Between four and five o'clock on Tuesday If te u r r n ,.. ° A r ° s l - 1 a mad bullock proceeded at a furious rate over Bla c .8 1 A bridge, and turning down Holland-street, and throug h e a iete an in to side, gored a woman dreadfully. The animal then. the yard of Barclay's brewhouse, where, coming ; to with one of the labourers named Jones, he fixed 13 to the the lower part of the poor fellow's leg, and to re it J o e , we. knee. Assistance being immediately at hand riditiont forthwith carried to the hospital in a most pitiable e d ° ,d bin!' whither the poor woman above alluded to had p eece b ot - A gun was then procured, and the contents fired at fie lock. The shot entered his cheek, c l os e to the os outu s the y staggered. but did not fall. A more deliberate aim W a ve the taken, i and the animal was shot in the knee, 'whi ch u g i a n i sc itb men n the yard an opportunity of despatching bludgeon - -- -- - C —II A I il • LADIES' BEST GOLD - reig" The weight is giv en by compar i son w ith the weight of Sa o ts ci a being more easily re f erre d to than if stated in ounce' and . l if orl , e The quality of th e go ld i s warranted equal to any that 5 into articles of this description. Price of the Cable Pattern, or Matted Ring 7 7 o Same weight as 3 sovs. 4 4 0 Same weight as 6s° s I 0 Ditto as 7 ses. _ a as 4 sovs. 5 5 0 Ditto Ditto as S 5015..,_! ;ye, as 5 sovs. 6 6 0 Ditto The following Patterns are One Guinea dearer than _t e 7 g r o , but cannot be made lighter than the weight of Six So patter n ' The Cage Pattern. The Chines e patter The Ring and Bar Pattern. I The Victoria 0 pattern g. do , THE NEW FLAT GOLD WATCIIES...e7 7 The price in gold cases, with vertical movements ...... .. -,, Ditto, with well-finished horizontal movement, in double - 0 ' j . bottomed engine-turned case, j ew elled, silver dia, 9 9 warranted....................... .. ..................... ... T. COX SAVORY'S, .. Lon do' Watchmaker, Silversmith, and Jeweller , 47, Coruna. l t i ( Seven Doors from Gracechurch- s t r eet.) _,,,, t etid e ' N.B. The Horizontal Construction is particular l y reu" —ooze for its superior accuracy. fo $ On the 13th inst., the lady of daughter. Char les of Thomas H. W h ) e llt il t t e ' At Cheltenham, on the 13th inst., the lady of t f $ Hebert, of a daughter. On the 15th inst., in Portland-place, Mrs. Ruddell Tc 4a ' 0 of daughter. el Il srciP At Rugby, o n the 15th inst., the lady of Colon ii... Esq., twins, a son and daughter. of La rk" On the 16th inst., the lady of George Ellis, a, 14°. rise, Clapham, of a daughter. • nn .roa On the 16th inst., in Frederick - pla ce, Gray's- , e Lewis Robert Bellamy ef a son. s sv. T. cop On the 16th inst., at , Leyton, Essex, th e lady of land, Esq., M.P., of a son R R IE D. On the 10th inst., at Broadwater, Charles Henry Ofiniltleire°;f rietta.street, Covent-garden, to 'Catherine , George Parsons, of the Sea-house Hotel, Worthing. pornbaYl At nothesay, on the 11th inst. Francis Martin, Esci"e Robert to Susan Morrison; youngest daughter of the late Georg son, Esq., Greenock. eldest daughter W i " i4lll D lED . On the 11th inst., in London-street, Fitzroy ~.„ Cantis, Esq., late of Old Park, near Canterbury, ag e k a ged ' vv. On the 1211 inst., Mr. Adam Fuller. late of Alillban t 1 Charles Gardiner, A t Regiment, ilm2tehnti,nst., aged 1 4 .. 9 i cu t e na n t - Colon e On the 15th inst., at Chester-terrace, Regent the h t e : t i e :: James Dunn. h a On the 15th inst., at Tower-hill, Elizabeth,'srelPi actdco' of Mr. Henry Teape, aged 7 9 in f a nt 9 °l ' 1 ,. On the 15th inst . Robert Henry East APCIarY, . _ a o aay , H M o r ol . dne ß nt o h b ce ert Thrupp George-street, Portman_ squ are t ge, dvrallt r l u 6 t t t h e n i d n e s n t 1 • n ier, gr a ' All 1 Cha r es On the 14th inst., at SA. George's-terrace, Milton; late ,Einscißeenftißncakth.s.treet, Harriet, relict 0. of the Royal-terrace, Adel phi, London, widow of th Minier, Esq., of Oak-field Lodge, Coydon. of John Walter' On the 14th inst., Elizabeth, the wife of Mr. Jo Goswell-rold, aged 39. 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